A Story Of Light

"This book presents the essential aspects of relativistic quantum field theory, with minimal use of mathematics. It covers the development of quantum field theory from the original quantization of electromagnetic field to the gauge field theory of interactions among quarks and leptons. Aimed at both scientists and non-specialists, it requires only some rudimentary knowledge of the Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formulation of Newtonian mechanics and a basic understanding of the special theory of relativity and quantum mechanics." -- Back cover.

First sentence: One may have wondered when first learning Newtonian mechanics, also called the classical mechanics, why the concept of a field, the force field of gravity in this case, is hardly mentioned.

Year

2004

Language

English

Publisher

World Scientific Publishing Company

Editions

2

Pages

107

ISBN

9789812560346

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